I didn't accuse you of either, I just asked you not to do them.
OryxAndCake
joined 7 months ago
Does she actually know how bad things are?
Like does she know we're over capacity on fresh water and running out of top soil? Does she know what a Blue Ocean Event is? Does she actually understand how fucking world ending +3c is going to be and how soon we're likly to hit it?
Because no offense but anyone actually working in this industry who isn't fucking morose and out of hope...
Like is she doing low level volunteering or something? Because otherwise she really doesn't understand what's going on.
Most people won't even go vegan, that's like the bare minimum anyone could do that would actually have an impact, and most people won't do it.
Your optimism is not going to rewrite physics or change human nature. Go do whatever you think you need to do to make things better though, by all means, just don't lie to people about the unfixable apocalypse we're heading into or get shitty with them if they're rightfully adopting a bleak outlook.
Unless you're some kind of god wizard capable of rewriting the laws of physics, there is nothing we can do. Go read some of those links and look some of this stuff up for yourself if you don't believe me.
It's going to be climate collapse and resource depletion over the next 25 to 30 years. Click the spoiler for some of the ways this will happen. There are other factors at play too but imo these are the main ones.
spoiler
90% of earths topsoil is at risk of depletion by 2050
Global freshwater demand will exceed supply 40% by 2030
Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity.
Global carbon emissions are still rising
The arctic sea ice extent is declining rapidly and we're likely headed into a Blue Ocean Event later this year, and potentially a double BOE depending on how the El Nino and summer in the southern hemisphere go.
The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon but the earths alebedo with the declining sea ice and lack of cloud cover will impact these numbers massively and isn't being predicted for, which means that 4.5c above the baseline by 2060 is now possible.
I know I keep fucking posting this in comments around the fediverse but it needs to be seen by as many people as possible because this is fucking happening and most people still have no idea and think everything will be ok.
Thanks! And to you if you're on this too.
Eh, I try not to have an ego.
Winning in my case tends to involve shutting down reactive idiots who are spouting bullshit by replying to them with enough sources and facts to the point where they start deleting their own replies and blocking me to get away because they now look like fucking morons.
It can be very satisfying but sometimes they're also a mod or try to dox me, and that is not so fun.
Depends if I won or not.
Oh wow, if I lived in your part of the world I'd be stocking up.
Ikr, me too! I ate like 20 though and just kept reloading the steamer as I was going. That nap afterwards was so good.
The Newsroom climate interview is something that, despite being from a fictional show, I have made a lot of people watch for how fucking accurate it is.